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I am so glad you started this thread. Laura Ingraham started off her show this morning talking precisely about this. She suggested elevating John Thune to the Judiciary chairmanship since he made it one of the centerpieces of his campaign. On the senate side, I cannot think of a more earth-shattering win for cultural conservatives than Thune over Daschle. Thune deserves payback from Bush and the Republicans on several levels:

Thune left a safe house seat four years ago to run against Tim Johnson at the behest of the President.
After Thune lost a heartbreaker to Johnson, he decided to climb the mountain once again to try and slay the dragon - Daschle.
Thune made Daschle's complicity and even leadership on obstructing Bush's judicial nominations a central plank in his campaign to unseat him.
Bush and the Republicans owes the Christian conservative voters - big time - not only for their own re-election, but for most every senate seat they swung their way.

Issue #1 for Frist/Cheney/Santorum/Bush is to deny Specter the chairmanship and to get him off the committee entirely. He can still do enormous damage just being a member of the committee.

Laura Ingraham started off her show this morning talking precisely about this. She suggested elevating John Thune to the Judiciary chairmanship since he made it one of the centerpieces of his campaign.

I likes the sound of that but won't they think Thune is "too new" for that postion? How much does seniority play into who gets what in the Senate?

Great idea. You are correct. I was here on the ground and saw it. Denial of judgeships was a central plank, if not the key one. With it, Thune took Daschle's clout trump card and turned it on it's head! This was key. The clout was not doing South Dakotans any good if Sen. Daschle was using it to help the left continue to destroy our country.

Thune and we conservatives who fought for him are owed---Big Time!